Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1887-07-21
THE NEWS.

| II is estimated that the production Of iron
ore will be million tons in excess Of what it
was in 1886, notwithstanding the coke strike.
Mrs. C. McMartin, who went to Toledo, O.,
on her wedding trip, was deserted there by
her husband, who, she says, first robbed her
! of 81 800.
VIM. Curtis, of West Liberty, VIVA, was
fatally burned by the explosion of a harosene
torch, with which he was burning the paint
of q wagon.
Rev. W. q. Young, DID,, pastor Of the
Central Presbyterian church, Louisville, KY,
has accepted the presidency Of Center College,
Danville, Ky.
A disease, supposed to be Texas fever, has
broken out among herd of cattle belonging
to A. @. Malone, in SangamoD county, Ind,
and several are dying every day.
! Charles Crosse, Cincinnati furniture
dealer, worth about $50, 900, committed sui
eide by hanging. His mind is supposed to
have been affected by exposure to the sun
during an inspection of some house he was
building in one of the suburbs.
The Tnion National Bsak of Cleveland, o.,
has brought suit in the Hamilton county
common pleas court against the directors of
the late Fidelity National Bank Of Cincinnati,
to recover $67. 166 03, 8 deposit in the Fidel-
ity at the time of the suspension.
The envelope manufacturers Of New York
and New England have entered into combs
nation, called the Standard Envelope Co. to
raise the price of their products, which they
claim have been 80 low for several years that
Al g. - tIo
Immediately after vice-president A. B.
Hill, of the New York stock exchange, on
Friday, descended from the rostrun from
which he had announced the death Of Mr.. M.
E De Rivss, prominent member, he was
stricken down aud died almost at once Of
heart disease.
There are indications of q conspiracy in
which the politicians Of the Standard Oil Co.
are concerned, to secure the overthrow of
Cleveland and the nomination of Secretary
Whitney for President on the Democratic
ticket. The object to be obtained Is the Q. s.
treasury for speculative purposes.
A battle between the troops of the Ameer
of Afghsnistan and the insurgents recently
took place at Mashaki, south of GhuZZni, and
the Ameers forces were victorious. They are
said to have sent the heads of two hundred of
the slain to Cabul. A large force subsequently
defeated the troops of the Ameer-
An exclusion train on the Grand Trunk
railway ran into a freight train of oil cars on
the Michigan Central, on Friday, at a crosse
ing at St. Thomas, Ont. The oil took fire,
and enveloped one of the cars of the Passen~
ger train. Twelve persons perished in the
wreck and about 100 were injured.
The Cincinnati Centennial Guarantee
Fund has reached SS44,31O.
Harry Hicks was brutally beaten and
robbed by highwayme9, at Newark. o.
David 1. Wightman, a we'll known
philanthropist, died at Cleveland, Mon
day.
Jas E Campbell has declared himself
for the Democratic nomination for Gov
ernor.
Twenty+one deaths, mostly of chill
dren, occurred in Rockford, Ill, on ac-
count of the excessive heat.
The mercury rose to 1O6 degs in the
shade in Washington, D c, Monday, the
highest indication in any one day since
1879.
John Thomas, a negro, was lyDched by
farmers at Union City, Ind, from tree
in the court house yard. The crime
was rape.
Mrs Sarah Goodspeed has been grant,
ed divorce from Major NJ Goodspeed,
who attempted to murder her two
months- ago.
Justice Harlan overruled application
for habeas corpus in tally sheet forger's
case at Indianapolis, and Sim Coy was
remanded to Jail.
Findlay voted on a proposition to
bond the city in the sum of 100000 for
water works. 1t was carried by an
overwhelming majority.
The count of the cash and securities
in the Treasurer's Office at Washington
resulted as follows: Funds on hand,
S95, 500, 900. of which SCI, 100000 was in
standard dollars.
The Chicago City Council will be re-
quested by the Mayor to extend an invi-
tation to President Cleveland to visit
that city during the soldiers encamp
ment in October.
Senator Sherman maintains his stand
that if the Republicans want him for
their candidate for the Presidency they
must say so at Toledo, or he will at once
withdraw as a candidate.
At Fairmount, Ind, building leased
by Ira M Smith with the intention of
starting saloon was blown to pieces,
and the office of the FairmOunt News,
adjoining was wrecked.
On Saturday evening an itinerant
bootblack named Nelson Holland, from
Cambridge, o, shot VIM P Ansell, boy
of five years old, in the abdomen, from
the effects of which the latter died.
In the Cuyahoga County Democratic
Convention to select delegates 20 the
State Convention, an effort was made to
get Senator II B Payne on the delega
tion, which was at first bitterly opposed.
but was at length successful by very
close vote.
There is a strong suspicion that W F
Col well, the colored incendiary, at pres
ent in Lancaster, Pa, Jail. is the muir
derer of John Sharpless, the Quaker
farmer in Delaware county, for which
crime man named Johnson is now unt
der sentence of death.
John II Martin and J II Buchanan,
two jackson, Miss, editors, Prohibition
and Anti respectively, each accompat
MED by friend. started for a point in
Louisiana, Friday, where hostile meet
ing had been arranged for. Just before
reaching the State line all the parties
we're arrested and put under bonds to
keep the peace.
Harvest Home.